re: #391 Sharmuta

As a people, Americans tend to like underdogs, and Rio/South America certainly have been the underdogs previously in their attempts to win the rights to host the Olympics. I’m very happy for them to have been awarded the Games for 2016- well deserved. I’m sure it’s more than just Rio and Brazil that are heartened by this news, as future Games in South America will hopefully follow in the coming years.

That being said- there is no need to gloat at our loss. It’s poor sportsmanship to be a gloating winner as much as it is to be a whining loser. This is something in between. Reveling in a loss so as to gloat at the losing team. Disgusting, and the antithesis of the Olympic Spirit. If this is how my fellow Americans want to behave… I pity them. They are no better than the 1972 USSR Basketball team.

I believe this is also the first time the games have been hosted in South America.